Hi, sometime ago I asked for advice on which graphics card to buy having not owned one since buying an xbox almost a decade ago. I basically want to play all games, and things crysis 3 for example will be on the list.
The end use will be in an HTPC, connected to a HDTV so the maximum resolution required will be 1080p. The card will also be used for hardware decoding of video and hardware deinterlacing of HD TV streams etc.
One other thing I would like to consider is 3D playback, things like BluRays etc for if I ever buy myself a 3D capable TV. Does this require features on a card or is it just normal stuff? 3D gaming, I'm not particulary bothered about.
When looking on Scan and Aria etc I see loads of these cards, all marked as 7850/7870 etc, but they have various speeds atatched to the GPUs and the memory and I don't know if some of this is gimmick or not so I would like to shortlist a few models which I should spend the cash on. Ideally max £190.
One other thing that does concern me slightly is the volume of these cards. The last card I owned was a Radeon 9800 Pro like 10 years ago lol. So I have absolutely nothing to compare against. I need to make sure it's not too noisey (especially when being used to playback video) and I'm curious just how noisey these things are going to be.. and more so, what options are there for making them more quiet if any?
Any help would be much appreciated before I drop the cash on the wrong thing!